This article explains how to move your Scratch LIVE library and crates to an external drive. Once complete, your Scratch LIVE crates and library will be completely portable, allowing you to use your own crates and music with any computer running Scratch LIVE.

This article is not applicable to DJs using iTunes to organize their music.If you are an iTunes user, now may be a good time to make the switch and start using Scratch LIVE to manage your music.

Make sure you have upgraded to Scratch LIVE version 1.8.1 or higher before starting.

As always, before moving/deleting anything off your system, make sure you have a back up to revert to if something goes wrong.

Step 1: Move your music library

This is pretty self explanatory, just drag and drop your music files / folders to the external hard drive that you want to use, as you would with any other normal transfer.

Remember we are moving our files, not making a copy. Once you are certain your music is all on your external drive, delete it off your computer (internal) drive.

Do not move your whole "my music" / "music" folder.  This contains more than just your music files, including your Scratch LIVE folder. Its important at this stage to leave that where it is. 

A good way to set up your music library on your computer is to separate your actual music from the rest of the folders that get dumped in your root music folder. Notice in the screen shot below, my actual music files are stored in a tidy folder called "music library". This means you can move your music library around without worrying about moving the data for Ableton/ iTunes/ Garageband etc.

 

Moving your music files